SPLASH 2022
Mon 5 - Sat 10 December 2022 Auckland, New Zealand
Fri 9 Dec 2022 14:30 - 15:00 at Seminar Room LG004 - Onward! Papers and Essays Chair(s): Matthew Sotoudeh

The long-standing aspiration for software reuse has made astonishing strides in the past few years. Many modern software development ecosystems now come with rich sets of publicly-available components contributed by the community. Downstream developers can leverage these upstream components, boosting their productivity.

However, components evolve at their own pace. This imposes obligations on and yields benefits for downstream developers, especially since changes can be breaking, requiring additional downstream work to adapt to. Upgrading too late leaves downstream vulnerable to security issues and missing out on useful improvements; upgrading too early results in excess work. Semantic versioning has been proposed as an elegant mechanism to communicate levels of compatibility, enabling downstream developers to automate dependency upgrades.

While it is questionable whether a version number can adequately characterize version compatibility in general, we argue that developers would greatly benefit from tools such as semantic version calculators to help them upgrade safely. The time is now for the research community to develop such tools: large component ecosystems exist and are accessible, component interactions have become observable through automated builds, and recent advances in program analysis make the development of relevant tools feasible. In particular, contracts (both traditional and lightweight) are a promising input to semantic versioning calculators, which can suggest whether an upgrade is likely to be safe.

Fri 9 Dec

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13:30 - 15:00
Onward! Papers and EssaysCOVID Time Papers In Person at Seminar Room LG004
Chair(s): Matthew Sotoudeh Stanford University
13:30
30m
Talk
A Case Study in Language-Based Security: Building an I/O Library for Wyvern
COVID Time Papers In Person
Jennifer Fish Carnegie Mellon University, Darya Melicher Google, Jonathan Aldrich Carnegie Mellon University
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14:00
30m
Talk
How (Not) To Write Java Pointer Analyses After 2020
COVID Time Papers In Person
Manas Thakur IIT Bombay
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14:30
30m
Talk
Putting the Semantics into Semantic Versioning
COVID Time Papers In Person
Patrick Lam University of Waterloo, Jens Dietrich Victoria University of Wellington, David J. Pearce ConsenSys
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